The project promises to generate controversy, as did its counterpart, the Human Genome Diversity Project (HGDP). The HGDP was developed in 1991 to map the genetic diversity of hundreds of human ...

The Human Genome Project, or HGP for short ... Some people are at particular risk of developing certain types of breast cancer, because their family members carry faulty alleles.

Over time, researchers' knowledge of the genetic risk factors for disease has ... medical care predicted by the planners of the Human Genome Project are drawing closer, that dream will only ...

Thirty years out from the start of the Human Genome Project, researchers have finally finished sequencing ... it correctly represents some individuals’ genomes but not others’, which risks biasing ...

This information will help explain human origins and disease risks as well ... To date, the HapMap project has identified over 3.1 million SNPs across the human genome that are common among ...

More than 20 years after the conclusion of the Human Genome Project, Macias and other researchers at Wang Lab in the ...

A groundbreaking data storage technology could preserve an entire human genome in a tiny 5D memory ... Professor Peter Kazansky, who leads the project, describes this as a "new era" in data ...